Suspected jihadists have massacred at least 114 civilians in Burkina Faso‘s volatile north in the deadliest attacks since Islamist violence erupted in the west African country in 2015, officials said Saturday. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore denounced an attack near the borders with Mali and Niger where jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State have […]
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Abducted Italian, Canadian are alive, says Burkina govt
An Italian man and his Canadian companion abducted last December in Burkina Faso are alive but may have been moved to another country, a Burkinabe government spokesman said. An Italian missionary abucted last September in Niger meanwhile may since have been briefly held in Burkina Faso, the spokesman added. Burkina Faso’s government spokesman Remis Fulgance […]